Daniel Ricciardo began the Hungarian Grand Prix inside the highest ten.
Nevertheless, the veteran Formulation 1 driver didn’t end there.
Ricciardo started the race on the medium compound and pitted early, coming into the pits on Lap 8 to make the change to the onerous tire. Nevertheless, that early pit cease noticed Ricciardo emerge amid heavy site visitors, and he confronted an uphill combat from there to try to get well place on the monitor.
Ricciardo gained a number of spots on his second pit cease, however finally completed exterior the factors, settling for a P12.
That “lengthy and irritating” afternoon left the Australian driver in search of solutions after the race.
“At present it was an extended and irritating race,” mentioned Ricciardo within the staff’s post-race report. “We didn’t use the tempo we had within the clear air. We had been on the mediums at the beginning of the race and after just a few laps we pitted for brand spanking new hards along with the opposite automobiles who began on softs, popping out in site visitors. It’s much more irritating as a result of we had been fast all weekend, and I felt like now we have taken ourselves out of the race so early as we couldn’t combat automobiles that had been coming a lot faster on newer [tires].”
VCARB Group Principal Laurent Mekies conceded that the staff “received it improper” with Ricciardo on Sunday.
“Sadly, we received it improper with Daniel and pitted him too early in heavy site visitors, which misplaced him an opportunity to combat for factors. His tempo had been extraordinarily sturdy all weekend lengthy, and he demonstrated that once more within the ultimate stint of the race when he was lastly capable of finding some free air and combat his approach again,” defined Mekies. “We actually share his frustration, and we’ll study and are available again stronger subsequent week.”
Nevertheless, not all was misplaced for the staff, as Yuki Tsunoda battled by way of the bruising he suffered in his shunt in qualifying on Saturday to complete up in P9, banking two doubtlessly important factors for the staff of their combat with Haas for sixth within the Formulation 1 Constructors’ Championship.
Tsunoda praised the complete staff for placing his RB01 in place to complete within the factors on Sunday after his huge accident on Saturday.
“Initially, enormous due to the mechanics and staff who spent the evening and this morning repairing my automotive in time for the race. It wasn’t straightforward after such an enormous crash and we needed to change lots of issues, however due to their onerous work we had been in a position to rating the factors right now – enormous credit score to the entire staff,” mentioned Tsunoda. “I’m very relieved I used to be in a position to make up for it after yesterday’s crash and notably pleased with my [tire] administration. I feel it was an enormous race for us, particularly as we had been in a position to end forward of our opponents, and it’s an enormous optimistic for the approaching races.”
Tsunoda’s two factors imply VCARB now has a six-point lead over Haas, because the grid heads to Belgium for subsequent weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix, the final race earlier than F1’s summer time shutdown.
